Guarantee cards: Cong's path to poll redemption
Business Standard|April 22, 2024
For a party that felt deflated after December 3, 2023, when it lost the Assembly polls in the three Hindi heartland states, the unrelenting demands from its candidates to supply them with more of the Congress' guarantee cards has put the spring back in the step of Congress strategists and incharges of its war rooms, who work out of a bungalow in central Delhi's leafy Lodhi Estate, and smaller ones in state capitals across the country.
ARCHIS MOHAN

The Congress is on course to distribute 30 million 'guarantee cards', which carry details of its 25 guarantees and plans to distribute as many as 80 million of such cards by the time campaigning ends for the seventh phase on the evening of May 30.

Congress leaders say their party is facing an acute resource crunch and has preferred to focus its resources on 125-130 'winnable' seats across the country, including the 52 it won in 2019.

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